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Definition of tinny in English: tinnyadjectivetinniest, tinnier ˈtɪniˈtɪni 1Having a displeasingly thin, metallic sound. （声音）单薄的；尖细的；尖脆的 tinny music played in the background 作为背景音乐播放的音质单薄的音乐。 Example sentencesExamples - I loved knowing that the music I was playing and the words I was speaking were in people's homes and cars, in the kitchen at restaurants or on tinny boomboxes in freshman dorm rooms.
- It is completely overmodulated, distorted, tinny, and terribly noisy.
- Armed with my positive memory, I pushed the play button on my own small, tinny stereo, in the hope that my mood would improve.
- Just one listen and you are teleported back to a day of reverb guitars, tinny bass and minimalist drums.
- The sum of £50,000 being quoted would have been better spent on giving the town hall a decent set of chimes to replace the present tinny sound of the bells.
- It clanged to the ground making a tinny metallic sound.
- Dialogue often sounded unnaturally tinny, as though people were speaking from within a metallic tube.
- There was a tinny crash as the prisoner threw his metal bowl of slop at the wall, followed by the complaints of the other prisoners.
- The sound was tinny and the picture was black and white.
- It features the rather tinny sound of a ball dropping into a hole.
- I say again: the sound is dreadful - terribly aged, degraded, compressed, tinny, and just overall awful sounding.
- Isn't she that annoying bimbo with the tinny voice who constantly hangs around him?
- The rooms were perfect in every detail, with hot and cold running taps in every bedroom, dimmer light-switches and wirelesses that actually seemed to be making a barely decipherable tinny broadcast.
- The dialogue is often difficult to hear and the music sounds tinny and flat.
- The cheesy dialogue is poorly mixed, often sounding tinny and hushed.
- It would appear that only the speaker covers are large and that the actual speakers are tiny, since the sound quality is tinny and poor when playing back music.
- By contrast, the 2.0 track is nowhere as good, often sounding flat and tinny.
- Guns firing sound like they're coming from the back of a cave; music sounds tinny, as if you're listening to an AM radio station.
- The broadcasts always ended with a spookily-cheery valediction of ‘Good-bye, dear listeners’ and a tinny recording of the Internationale.
- In comparison, the original mono track is distorted, indistinct, and terribly tinny, but for preservation's sake, it is nice to see it included here.
Synonyms jangling, jangly, jingling, jingly, plinky, thin, metallic - 1.1 Made of thin or poor-quality metal.
（物品）薄（或劣质）铁皮制造的 由劣质铁制成的小型汽车。 Example sentencesExamples - Some metals have that cheap, tinny feel to them and this is not one of them.
- There is an urgent need for us to focus on tagging, vandal damage, and tinny houses.
Synonyms flimsy, thin, insubstantial, cheap, cheapjack, shoddy, poor-quality, inferior, low-grade, tawdry, rubbishy, trashy, gimcrack, jerry-built informal tacky, tatty - 1.2 Having an unpleasantly metallic taste.
（声音）单薄的；尖细的；尖脆的 canned artichokes taste somewhat tinny 罐装洋姜吃起来有点金属味。 Example sentencesExamples - I could both smell and taste the tinny metallic taste of blood.
- Behind the dish's overwhelming dose of lime juice, the broth was tinny and under-salted and left an unpleasant, lingering taste that I associate with the pre-prepared garlic paste you buy in jars.
- There was an unpleasant tinny taste in his mouth.
- Blueberries lose it completely, developing an actively unpleasant, tinny taste that even mountains of sugar can't mask.
- Its tinny taste failed to inspire drinkers to stay and by 1984 wasn't even one of the ten most popular sodas in the U.S. anymore.
2Australian NZ informal Lucky. 〈澳/新西兰，非正式〉幸运的，运气的 I'm what you might call tinny Example sentencesExamples - It's amazing how often a game of cricket can turn on one single stroke of tinny luck.
nounPlural tinnies ˈtɪni Australian, NZ informal 1A can of beer. 〈澳/新西兰，非正式〉一听啤酒 let's crack open a tinny, mate Example sentencesExamples - Crack open a tinnie and chuck another bamboo shoot on the barbie, she'll be right!
- From the camp-fire wafted smells of fried barramundi and fresh damper; while Ned, hot-foot from the Swing Arm Bar down at the Station Township and quite the little bar fly, was handing round tinnies from the eskie.
- Open a few tinnies and settle in for some quality entertainment.
- Dusted meself off, opened a cheap tinnie of lager, sat down and chilled out.
- The Aussies were frantically unpacking their crates of beer, and in no time all of them had tinnies glued to their lips.
2A small boat with an aluminium hull. Example sentencesExamples - The ferries, warships, water taxis, huge container vessels, yachts and fishing tinnies ply with impunity one of the greatest anchorages and working harbours in the world.
- Even the ubiquitous tinnies are made of aluminium these days.
- This leaves some flexibility for you to pick which wrecks you want to dive, and provides the chance to enjoy no more than one tinnie of divers on the wreck you decide to visit.
- Depending on weather, sea state and our selected altitude, we can ‘see’ a weekend fisherman in his tinnie, a pod of leaping dolphins or a submarine's periscope, far beyond our binocular-assisted visual range.
- ‘They used binoculars to check and saw two men sitting on an upturned four metre tinny,’.
3A portion of cannabis wrapped in tin foil. they could buy a tinny for about $20
Derivativesadverb A broad scouse voice tinnily chimed out from my speakers as I watched the hubbub on the street below. Example sentencesExamples - Anne Diamond sitting forlornly on the sofa in a stupid wig during the ‘Eighties Party’, looking bleakly into the middle distance while Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart blares tinnily into the Big Brother House.
- A cheery consular officials sat behind a bank teller's glass screen and informed me, tinnily, through a Bose speaker that my four-year ancestry-based entry permit will be ready to collect lunchtime tomorrow.
noun On the sound side, the Dolby Digital Stereo mix is decidedly high ended, but there is no shrillness, tinniness, or distortion to be found. Example sentencesExamples - The soundtrack suffers a bit from tinniness and scratching in certain parts, and the 2.0 Dolby surround is not very lively, but it is robust and even the smallest grunts and sighs come through clearly.
- While one can gauge a tiny bit of tinniness in the scoring, the dialogue is always understandable (with an assist from the subtitles) and easy to hear.
- Hiss is minimal and the songs have a degree of warmth to them, avoiding the tinniness that sometimes characterizes film music of the time.
- Audio quality varies greatly; at its worst, there's buzz, flatness, and tinniness; at other moments it is respectably clear and shows adequate fidelity.
Rhymesblini, cine, Finney, finny, Ginny, guinea, hinny, mini, Minnie, ninny, pinny, Pliny, shinny, skinny, spinney, whinny Definition of tinny in US English: tinnyadjectiveˈtɪniˈtinē 1Having a displeasingly thin, metallic sound. （声音）单薄的；尖细的；尖脆的 tinny music played in the background 作为背景音乐播放的音质单薄的音乐。 Example sentencesExamples - The rooms were perfect in every detail, with hot and cold running taps in every bedroom, dimmer light-switches and wirelesses that actually seemed to be making a barely decipherable tinny broadcast.
- It clanged to the ground making a tinny metallic sound.
- Dialogue often sounded unnaturally tinny, as though people were speaking from within a metallic tube.
- The sound was tinny and the picture was black and white.
- The dialogue is often difficult to hear and the music sounds tinny and flat.
- There was a tinny crash as the prisoner threw his metal bowl of slop at the wall, followed by the complaints of the other prisoners.
- Guns firing sound like they're coming from the back of a cave; music sounds tinny, as if you're listening to an AM radio station.
- In comparison, the original mono track is distorted, indistinct, and terribly tinny, but for preservation's sake, it is nice to see it included here.
- It is completely overmodulated, distorted, tinny, and terribly noisy.
- Just one listen and you are teleported back to a day of reverb guitars, tinny bass and minimalist drums.
- Isn't she that annoying bimbo with the tinny voice who constantly hangs around him?
- The cheesy dialogue is poorly mixed, often sounding tinny and hushed.
- It would appear that only the speaker covers are large and that the actual speakers are tiny, since the sound quality is tinny and poor when playing back music.
- I loved knowing that the music I was playing and the words I was speaking were in people's homes and cars, in the kitchen at restaurants or on tinny boomboxes in freshman dorm rooms.
- Armed with my positive memory, I pushed the play button on my own small, tinny stereo, in the hope that my mood would improve.
- It features the rather tinny sound of a ball dropping into a hole.
- The sum of £50,000 being quoted would have been better spent on giving the town hall a decent set of chimes to replace the present tinny sound of the bells.
- I say again: the sound is dreadful - terribly aged, degraded, compressed, tinny, and just overall awful sounding.
- By contrast, the 2.0 track is nowhere as good, often sounding flat and tinny.
- The broadcasts always ended with a spookily-cheery valediction of ‘Good-bye, dear listeners’ and a tinny recording of the Internationale.
Synonyms jangling, jangly, jingling, jingly, plinky, thin, metallic - 1.1 (of an object) made of thin or poor-quality metal.
（物品）薄（或劣质）铁皮制造的 由劣质铁制成的小型汽车。 Example sentencesExamples - Some metals have that cheap, tinny feel to them and this is not one of them.
- There is an urgent need for us to focus on tagging, vandal damage, and tinny houses.
Synonyms flimsy, thin, insubstantial, cheap, cheapjack, shoddy, poor-quality, inferior, low-grade, tawdry, rubbishy, trashy, gimcrack, jerry-built - 1.2 Having an unpleasantly metallic taste.
（声音）单薄的；尖细的；尖脆的 canned artichokes taste somewhat tinny 罐装洋姜吃起来有点金属味。 Example sentencesExamples - Blueberries lose it completely, developing an actively unpleasant, tinny taste that even mountains of sugar can't mask.
- Behind the dish's overwhelming dose of lime juice, the broth was tinny and under-salted and left an unpleasant, lingering taste that I associate with the pre-prepared garlic paste you buy in jars.
- I could both smell and taste the tinny metallic taste of blood.
- There was an unpleasant tinny taste in his mouth.
- Its tinny taste failed to inspire drinkers to stay and by 1984 wasn't even one of the ten most popular sodas in the U.S. anymore.
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